![]() The singer landed his first surprise back in 2017 with his self-titled solo debut. ![]() A candid autobiography written in technicolor rock n’ roll, it’s an album about Becoming and across its 12 songs, bears remarkable witness to a young man in the middle of self-reckoning. Styles may be talking about the mixed bag of experiences that define reality, but the same could be said of Fine Line. The good and the bad.” “That is life,” he writes in the collection’s liner notes. In an age of highly curated Instagram feeds and meticulously managed celebrity images, he’s dedicated the LP to “all that I’ve done. It’s a startling one-two punch of vulnerability from the 21 st century's emergent rock god. “It’s hard for me to go home/And be so lonely." “I wasn’t ready for it all.” Later, on the same cut, he explains. “Don’t blame the drunk caller,” he begs an ex-lover. “I don’t wanna be alone,” the singer admits on the shimmying album-opener “Golden.” Belying the warm tones of the accompanying slide-guitar, glockenspiel, and summery da-da-da backing vocals, he continues: “Don’t wanna let you know,” he sings, comfortable and in the center of his range, “I don’t wanna be alone/But I can feel it take a hold.” On “To Be So Lonely,” driven by a toe-tapping double cello bass rhythm, he’s drunk and desperate to fill the void. And while the 25-year-old often appears remarkably at ease with his surroundings-his dimpled smile never falters, not even at the apex of 1D’s fandemonium-a poignant fear of loneliness courses through Styles's magnificent second album, Fine Line, out now. As irony dictates, though, fame, especially on the level that Styles has experienced since One Direction became the only thing young girls cared about in 2010, is curiously isolating. From the cadre of security guards, stylists, publicists, managers, and hangers-on, a small army necessarily follows wherever they go. People as famous as Harry Styles are almost never alone.
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